Rep. Kanjorski, Paul E. [D-PA-11]

An amendment to provide counseling, either directly or through third parties, to delinquent federally insured mortgagors.

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Amendment sought to reduce the amount authorized for the National Endowment for Democracy from $30 million to $15.8 million.

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Amendments en bloc regarding the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority Secondary Treatment project. It requires the State of Pennsylvania to give first priority to the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority Secondary Treatment projected mandated under federal court order in respect to use of funds under this bill. It also provides that the project will be eligible for 75 percent of the cost of construction.

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An amendment consisting of the text of amendment No. 79, printed in the Congressional Record on January 19, 1994, to require States and local governments to participate in establishing and maintaining a national database for the identification of child molesters, child abusers, persons convicted of sex crimes, persons under a restraining order, or who have failed to pay child support. The requirement would be exempt from the provisions of the bill prohibiting unfunded mandates on the States.

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An amendment numbered 9 printed in House Report 109-254 to restore Presidential appointees on the boards of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by retaining the regulatory appointees on the boards of the Federal Home Loan Banks. Makes modifications to the boards of the Federal Home Loan Banks related to the number of regulatory appointees, the expertise of appointees in community and economic development, and the allowable continued service of appointees after the expiration of their terms.

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An amendment numbered 22(1) printed in the Congressional Record to clarify recommendations on criteria for the Federal Housing Enterprise Board when appointing individuals as directors.

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An amendment numbered 12 printed in House Report 111-370 to strike the provisions exempting public companies with less than $75 million in market capitalization from the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act related to the external audit of internal controls.

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An amendment in the nature of a substitute numbered 2 printed in House Report 109-550 to establish a globally consistent, market-based approach to rating agency oversight and protects investors by maintaining quality as a factor in identifying Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (NRSRO); require the SEC to complete its definitional rulemaking on what constitutes an NRSRO within 60 days of enactment and establish public guidelines about the process used to identify new NRSROs within 180 days of enactment. encourage participating parties to expedite and complete their ongoing discussions over the Voluntary Framework, consistent with the European Commission's adoption of the International Organization of Securities Commissions' self-regulatory model, to improve market discipline and enhance rating quality; and would require annual hearings for five years on rating agencies before the House Financial Services Committee to explore the effectiveness of the prior two reforms and determine the need for further action.

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Amendment in the nature of a substitute.

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An amendment numbered 1 printed in the Congressional Record to insert a 9 year sunset provision into the bill.

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Amendment clarifies language that allows employees of the Office of Secondary Market Examination and Oversight to be appointed without regard to civil service laws and and to receive compensation without regard to the provisions of law relating to classification or General Schedule pay rates.

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An amendment numbered 2 printed in House Report 110-450 to better consumer protection by improving mortgage servicing, protecting appraiser independence, ensuring better appraisal quality and regulatory oversight, requiring escrows for mortgages for borrowers who might experience difficulty with repayment, and establishing disclosure for consumers who waive escrow accounts.

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An amendment to reduce the amount authorized for the National Endowment for Democracy for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 from $25,000,000 to $15,800,000.

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An amendment numbered four printed in House Report 108-616 which includes findings concerning the SEC authority over standard setting, the importance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) independence and credible accounting standards to the economy and investors, the recent actions of Congress in Sarbanes-Oxley to strengthen the standard-setting process, the comparative advantage provided to the U.S. by high quality accounting standards, and the damage to the standard-setting process of legislative pre-emption.

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An amendment numbered 18 printed in House Report 111-370 to aim to stem the unintended consequences resulting from the definitional change of NRSRO from Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization to Nationally Registered Statistical Rating Organization. Section 6005 creates inconsistencies in the securities laws as it amends the definition only in the 1933 and 1934 Acts and it has potential impact on state rules and regulations requiring a change of state level statute.

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An amendment numbered 15 printed in the Congressional Record to clarify the director's authority to determine the appropriate size of the board of directors of the Federal National Mortgage Association between 7 and 15 members.

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An amendment to delete the $48 million authorized funding in the bill for the National Endowment for Democracy.

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An amendment at the end of Title III, Operations and Maintenance, providing: None of the funds may be used to relocate the military entrance processing station in Wilkes Barre, PA, to a location outside the city.

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An amendment to establish the Business Development and Technology Commercialization Corporation to make federally-developed technology available for commercial use. The amendment intends to make federal technologies available to small and mid-sized businesses. To achieve this goal, it would direct the Commerce Department to create a database of all technologies and processes in which the government has at least some proprietary interest. This database would be accessible to small and medium-sized businesses as well as large corporations. In cases of national security or cases which might violate the proprietary rights of any private interest, access to the database would be limited.

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An amendment (comprised of two amendments offered en bloc, one of which is numbered 84 as printed in the Congressional Record and the other submitted on Jan. 27 and not printed) to provide for exclusion from the bill any federal mandates that pertain to the protection of investors, financial markets, federally insured banks and credit unions, and deposit insurance funds.

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An amendment to provide a 5 year time-limit for the bill to remain in effect, afterwhich, Congress would be required to reauthorize the provisions. (Text of the amendment was printed as amendment No. 4 in the Congressional Record of January 31, 1995.).

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An amendment (comprised of amendment numbered 78 as printed in the Congressional Record and an additional amendment submitted from the floor but not printed and considered en bloc) to provide that the bill would not apply to laws and regulations regarding medicare.

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An amendment to require that, in reviewing proposals for UDAG funding, project proposals from urban counties be weighed only against other proposals from urban counties.

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National Baseball Hall of Fame Commemorative Coin Act

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National Baseball Hall of Fame Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than 50,000 $5 gold coins, 400,000 $1 silver coins, and 750,000 half dollar coins in recognition of the National Baseball Hall of Fame during the one-year period beginning on January 1, 2015. Directs the Secretary to hold a competition to design the obverse of the coins. Requires the design on the reverse side to depict a baseball similar to those used by Major League Baseball. Requires all sales of such coins to include specified surcharges, which shall be paid by the Secretary to the National Baseball Hall of Fame to help finance its operations. Requires the budgetary effects of this Act to be determined by reference to the latest statement titled "Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation" for this Act, provided that such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage.